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To use the$ 20 test, dentists stick pieces of paper between the patient's teeth and gums, then send the paper to BioTechnica for analysis
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A$ 41 million settlement has been reached on all claims stemming from the 1987 collapse of the apartment complex L'Ambiance Plaza in which 28 people were killed
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And everywhere Mr. Bush traveled last week, reporters demanded to know if the vice president believes Attorney General Edwin Meese should step down
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The tape, which is in the possession of Century's lawyers, shows cars with missing hubcaps, burned seats, body repairs, flat tires and cracked windows
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Peace in the Persian Gulf, if it sticks, may elevate Iraq as the new petroleum powerhouse, keeping a lid on oil prices in the short term and possibly reshaping political alliances in the Arab bloc over the long term
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After Charlie gets Karen to admit that she slept with Bobby to get him to choose her " worthwhile " project, Bobby reverts to type: He and his buddy will make the prison film after all and become rich, rich, rich
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Elsewhere, the nation's worst drought in a half- century may be searing crops and withering dreams, but farmers here on the High Plains and in a handful of other spots around the nation where rain is plentiful are rediscovering the truism that clouds can have silver linings
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But fires that have charred about 675, 000 acres in Alaska were left to die on their own
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The well flowed at a daily rate of 225 barrels of oil and 1, 000 cubic feet of natural gas from a depth of 8, 596 feet in a pump test
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I can't locate it in two hours of stumbling around Acha, even though I ask a dozen passers- by
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The music was really flowing, finally
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A bomb would have required " a bribable " Pakistani soldier or officer to plant it, an administration official said
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More sophisticated groups of pickpockets and scam artists are also targeting airports, police say
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In a test against listeria grown in cole slaw, lysozyme destroyed it without affecting the quality of the food
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" One of the clues that it wasn't really a crash was that she said everyone else slept through it, " he says
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The Nasdaq composite index, stuck in a narrow range since the beginning of September, slipped 0.28 to 384.20
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This may tell us more about the pollsters' wizardry than it does about the candidates, but obviously the Democrats haven't melted away
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When realistic paintings such as these were first viewed, by an educated class surfeited with romanticism and an upcoming middle class newly exposed to museums, they caused such commotion that for the first time in history police were necessary to keep people from touching the pictures
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" It's raining proposals, not moisture, " says Sen. Tom Daschle, Democrat of South Dakota
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The Federal Aviation Administration, trying to reduce the risk of accidents caused by wind shear, ordered that all planes with 30 seats or more be outfitted with equipment that detects and helps pilots escape the condition
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They remember how the boom in small stocks withered in March under the glare of bull- market publicity; some portfolio managers back then were complaining that the public excitement over little stocks was a bit overdone
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The feisty, 62-year- old director of the airline division of the Teamsters union wants 4, 300 Pan Am reservationists, ticket agents, and office and other workers to strike Pan Am Corp. after a cooling- off period that ends Sunday
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National Broadcasting Co.'s " Main Event " won the ratings race for the 8 p.m .- to-9 p.m. time period Friday -- and grabbed the highest NBC ratings for that time slot so far this season
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The telex requests banks to roll over loans falling due from tomorrow
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For the record, this was the second straight season in which the Redskins came to Chicago to knock the home team out of the playoffs
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Simply pouring more aid into this environment will breed more state- subsidized projects to compete with the private sector and a bigger bureaucracy to administer the projects
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Winos will drink anything if need be, but when they have the money to buy what they want, they tend to hew to the familiar. -LRB- Sales resistance may help explain why the handful of low- end products that companies have tried to launch in the past 20 years mostly have bombed. -RRB-/-R
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The rate increase by West Germany was a surprise, however, because some economists thought the Bundesbank wouldn't risk cooling its domestic economy
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" We had to melt it down with hot water, as hot as your head could stand, before we could comb the hair out, " recalls Jennie Aguilar, a beauty- school instructor in Canoga Park, Calif
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His psyche was attacked first by New York Mets pitcher David Cone, who in print called his curveball " high school, " and then by A's vet Don Baylor, who called him a " choker, " the ultimate ball- player insult
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A military group led by two men described as supporters of former ruler Ne Win took power in embattled Burma, and angry citizens armed with homemade weapons poured into Rangoon's streets to reject the new regime only hours after it was announced
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The Boeing spokesman said: " A concern from a longstanding and honored customer like JAL is going to be examined immediately to see what actions we can and shall take
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In the Airbus case, pilots and safety officials say the plane's speed and the speed of its engines before the crash are likely to be examined closely by French authorities
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Tamil rebels attacked a village in eastern Sri Lanka, killing at least 16 people in the assault on homes of the majority Sinhalese
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" There is a weak- minded view that competitors have a moral obligation to step back " and allow an official sponsor to reap all the benefits from a special event, says Jerry Welsh, former vice president for marketing at E.F. Hutton Group Inc., who claims to have coined the phrase " ambush marketing.'
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But Mr. Sherlund said he thinks the company has taken steps to fix that problem
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A cot in the studio, coupled with the play of entire compact disks, provides him with the opportunity to sleep; his longest snooze so far is 15 minutes
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Every time it rained, the family placed cups and bowls all over the house to catch the leaks
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Scattered arbitrage trading between stocks and stock- index futures kicked in early in the day, further depressing stock and futures prices, traders said
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Non- U.S. companies that don't respond to the need for more substantive and timely information will miss the opportunity to attract U.S. investment
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By the time Mr. Torres got his ether, agents had planted electronic beepers inside the barrels
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But what sticks in the mind of most corporate finance officials at the end of a hair- raising final quarter isn't the complex financing structures
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All this has left Theodore Levitt, the Harvard professor who popularized the theory, stumbling on Madison Avenue
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The study notes that some machines weigh half a ton when fully loaded and can strike the ground with a force of almost 1, 000 pounds
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The agreement apparently struck in Nicaragua between the Sandinistas and the Contras considerably discredits the alarms set off a few days ago by the Reagan administration over the Nicaraguan " invasion " of Honduras
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But he missed the shot
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Another form of front- running likely to be examined in coming months is trading by Wall Street firms in October in anticipation of massive sell orders by money managers using the computerized hedging strategy known as portfolio insurance
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The rollback destroyed this steady progress
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Mississippi's penchant for sticking with a senator, once elected, magnifies the importance of this campaign
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Rates on short- term Treasury bills wound up little changed, but the rate on federal funds, or reserves that banks lend each other overnight, fell
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The market pulled back during the afternoon amid profit- taking, traders said, and then began a fullscale retreat as buying interest evaporated
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The upper classes do not take food or water from them nor sit, eat or drink with them
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Mr. Filisko says his fluids don't rely on absorbed water, and perform better as temperatures rise
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The main problem, though, is that 80% of all retirement housing now on the market targets the wealthy -- yet that group makes up just 20% of all elderly people, says Gordon M. Johnson, a Los Angeles retirement- housing specialist with Laventhol& Horwath, a Philadelphia- based accounting firm that studies real estate
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Soon she is not only bringing her wheelchair- bound master snacks, she's knocking off people he dislikes -- and only too slowly
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NTN Toyo Bearing Co., a Japanese firm with plants in the U.S., is being besieged by potential buyers and has lead times of seven to 13 months
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CMS Energy in Jackson, Mich., kicked things off Tuesday, announcing that its Consumers Power subsidiary will get a$ 60 million boost to 1988 earnings, courtesy of the changed rules
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There's the tree planted in his honor at Freedoms Foundation in Valley Forge, Pa
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" We're already being flooded by inquiries from many major companies as to how -LRB- the board -RRB- can do this.'
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" I' m going to roll up my sleeves and make this work.'
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Gleeful opposition leaders have been quick to grasp the irony of the protests: Monimbo was the site of one of the first major uprisings against Anastasio Somoza, the hated dictator, a decade ago
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The questions are how many Hispanics will vote and how big a majority Gov. Dukakis can roll up
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Iran retaliated by firing two missiles that struck Baghdad, killing or injuring an unspecified number of people
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The United Kingdom's chancellor of the exchequer, Nigel Lawson, said the country has tightened its monetary policy to cool a consumer spending spree and bolster weak savings and investment levels
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When they're not in front of the camera, the Toons sing and dance at their version of Harlem's Cotton Club
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Securities firms and banks have long poured money into the coffers of state and local officials to improve their chances of getting municipal finance business
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They claim that colon cancer, which strikes more than 100, 000 Americans a year, occurs only in people who inherit a particular gene from their parents that predisposes them to the cancer
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The agreeable process of bringing money in and out with monthly returns as high as 8% became affectionately known as " riding the bicycle.'
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Mellon's mortgage unit, which lent primarily in depressed Southwestern states, is responsible for a large amount of Mellon's nonperforming domestic assets
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The fierce- looking, hairy- chested Mr. Ventura, a ring dangling from one ear, is shown saying, " Don't pump trouble
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Capitalizing on their heritage -- the town's name derives from the Scottish birthplace of poet Robert Burns -- citizens imported a fire- engine- red Scottish phone booth and planted it in the courthouse square
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In theory, the new technique should dissolve blood clots with less risk of bleeding occurring in other parts of the body, as can happen with current clot dissolvers
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Critics argue that Barclays's expansion simply will fill its loan book with bad debts nobody else wants, a contention bank officials dispute
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Seated in the bar of the Member's Club -- horse- racing prints on the wall, piano tinkling softly, ladies from the Jewish Community Club gathering for luncheon -- Mr. Redmond is astonished to be told that Venezuelans now drink more " national whiskey " than 12-year- old scotch
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The class- action suit was brought by a New York investor who purchased several thousands of dollars of First RepublicBank debt last year only to watch his investment wither as Texas's largest banking company rolled up a$ 656.8 million net loss for 1987 before seeking a bailout from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
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The failure of a rocket joint touched off the January 1986 explosion that killed the seven Challenger astronauts
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For only$ 4.95, it advises me to wrinkle up my nose, pucker my lips, grit my teeth -LRB- but not too tightly -RRB-, smile for a while, open my mouth wide, drop my jaw and roll my eyes around to relax
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Thirty- seven U.S. crewmen were killed in that unexpected attack
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A heavy snowstorm struck the South, snarling travel and closing schools as a record cold wave continued in the Midwest and East
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Publications, which always have had the option of using private instead of second- class delivery, are now stepping up their own alternative delivery plans
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At state dinners, the president pours wine for his guests, but in adherence to Islam never touches a drop himself
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And with no individual or group coming forward to fill the vacuum, " no one knows how or when order and government will be restored.'
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He is now economic adviser to Said bin Ahmed Al- Shanfari, the oil minister of Oman -- a role for which he was handpicked by Mr. Deuss, who flew him to Oman to introduce him to Mr. Al- Shanfari
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The hardest -- that is, most invulnerable- bases in the Western orbit are in Switzerland, Israel and Saudi Arabia; they have deep, extensive underground facilities and can ride out an attack and deliver a punishing counterblow
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Re your page- one article " Out of Orbit: Why a Space Station That Costs$ 25 Billion May Never Leave Earth, " Sept. 1: Funding the " Black Hole " referenced in the article on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Shuttle and Space Station is similar to funding other " Black Holes " that government contractors are trying to fill with overruns, often justified with specious explanations of the causes of missed targets
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Mr. Hawking compares all this to roulette: " At high energies -LRB- when the wheel is spun quickly -RRB- the ball behaves in essentially only one way -- it rolls round and round
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But a mechanic can't see or touch a short circuit in a microprocessor, says J.S. Kiple, manager of technical training for Chrysler's service and parts operations
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Foreign and domestic buyers poured into the market at the outset of trading on continued strength in the dollar and the widely held belief that interest rates are headed lower, said Frederick Leiner, a futures analyst with Prudential- Bache Securities Inc., Chicago
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To keep from wresting top executives from the driver's seat, Runzheimer says, more companies are trying to fill fleets with less expensive models
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Last week, the company said it was ready to enter bankruptcy court to avoid complying with the federal order to pump holding company assets into its troubled banks
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Several analysts wondered if the rise was ordered to cool down an overheating economy or rather to present a clear signal to the market that British Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson is in command of interest rate policy
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On the Cadillac Eldorado convertibles, water or melting snow dripping onto the window switch assembly when the driver's door is open could cause an electrical short
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Civilians die, and the population turns against the mujahedeen
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He then delivered a treatise on hypoxia and decompression sickness, noting that at 16, 000 to 20, 000 feet, people " feel extreme fatigue, a great desire to sleep, severe headache, difficulty in breathing and chest pain, exactly as stated by the Ayat.'
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The heart's pumping power three weeks after treatment, as measured by the fraction of blood ejected with each heartbeat, was " exactly the same " -- 58% for both groups, Dr. White said
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Gov. Roemer's first effort to kill 125 panels outright died in the legislature earlier this year
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Mr. Norris added that silver's sharp fall can be attributed to a series of technical levels that it hit, touching off heavy selling by commodity funds
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" We're not attacking the core assets; we're looking at what we consider to be our less- profitable assets, " the spokesman said
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And one of the congregation's most remarkable and fervent prayers came from worshipers toward the back of the church who began dancing and chanting: " Come, Tambo, come.'
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But several analysts predict the Fed will push short- term rates slightly higher later this year in hopes of cooling the economy and restraining inflation pressures
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